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RECENT EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

"Bridging Two Worlds: The Land of the Living and the Land of the Dead"

curated by Joanna Ebenstein and Laetitia Barbier

through Sunday, Dec 2, 2018 Weekends 12 - 5

Free and open to the public

The Fort Hamilton Gatehouse at Green-Wood Cemetery (Hamilton Parkway and Micieli Place, F and G trains at Fort Hamilton Station or Church Street Station)

How do the dead find their way to the next life? Who directs them on their journey? And when they arrive, can they establish a connection to those left behind? Across time, and around the globe, people have imagined that the dead might live on in another, imperceptible world. The worlds of the living and of the dead, however distinct and distant they may be, could theoretically be bridged, through individuals such as psychopomps (from Greek, meaning a “guide of souls”) like Anubis, Azrael, or Hermes, or by performing rituals such as ancestor worship, sacrificial offerings, or prayer. In Buddhist and Taoist traditions, for example, Yu Lan (the “Hungry Ghost Festival”) is a celebratory homecoming for the souls of the departed. Families honor the dead through specially prepared meals and by burning paper replicas of money, cellphones, clothing, and other material possessions for their ancestors to enjoy in the afterlife.

Through artifacts, artworks, and ephemera, this exhibition explores how humans have endeavored to imagine a separate world for the dead and to express their own desires for bridging the divide. Objects on view were drawn from collectors in the greater Morbid Anatomy community and The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collections.

Wolfgang Grasse (1930 - 20080 "The Kingdom of Death" 1990

"NOCTEM DIABOLI"

October 30 from 7pm to midnight.

Stephen Romano Gallery presents "NOCTEM DIABOLI" (Devil's Night), a one night exhibition event at The Living Gallery Outpost at 246 East 4th Street NYC October 30 from 7pm to midnight.

Stephen Romano was a presenter on Morbid Anatomy's program at 2018's NIGHTFALL event October 19th and 20th at Green-Wood Cemetery's annual event. Stephen Romano presented a group of Guatemalan Shaman's Altar Objects.

"OPENING THE THIRD EYE"

presented by Stephen Romano

October 3 - 7 2018 The Living Gallery NYC - Opening of the Third Eye reception

Stephen Romano Gallery is please to announce a four person exhibition of the works of Natsumi Goldfish, Alexis Palmer Karl, Daniel Goncalves and Barry William Hale at the Living Gallery Outpost on the Lower East side in New York City. The exhibition's theme will be further asserted with the inclusion of historical and vernacular images and objects including works by Jacob Bohme, Karl Kohl, Burt Shonberg, Jack Edwards, Darcilio Lima, Wolfgang Grasse, William Mortensen, spirit photography, as well as unknown artists.

The premise of the exhibition is to unite four artists from different corners of the world, America, Japan, Australia and Portugal, who's thread of continuity is to make art that achieves for the artist and consequently for the viewer an enriched state of consciousness, or the opening of the third eye, the locus of occult power and wisdom in the forehead of a deity, especially the god Shiva. Each of these artists, as well as the included peripheral material, aspires to induce, through the medium of visual art, a state of affirmation to the seeker of a cosmic order that perpetuates a higher sense of the spiritual (or meta-physical) connectedness amongst us.

The Living Gallery Outpost is located at 246 East 4th Street New York NY 10009.

WILLIAM MORTENSEN EXHIBITION AT DARK MOFO 2018 June 14 - June 25 2018

The art of William Mortensen will be featured at this year’s DARK MOFO festival in Tasmania as part of curator Brenden Walls’ INVISIBLE HOUSE exhibition at the Salamanca Arts Centre, 13 – 24 June 2018, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

The exhibition comprises of 30 works courtesy of Stephen Romano Gallery, many of which will be exhibitited publicly for the first time ever, and were recently acquired from the estate of William Mortensen’s first wife Courtney Crawford, and have been hidden from the public for almost 90 years.

William Mortensen UNTITLED (Balphagor and the Lost Souls) circa 1926

William Mortensen The Old Hag and The Old Hag with Skull circa 1926

William Mortensen Study for La Chatte an Untitled circa 1926

William Mortensen Fay Wray with Masks circa 1926

William Mortensen "ISIS" circa 1924

William Mortensen "The Make Believe Lady" circa 1924

William Mortensen "A Tantric Priest" 1932

William Mortensen Untitled circa 1924

The art of Charles AA Dellschau (1830 - 1923) at the American Folk Art Museum

Courtesy of Stephen Romano Gallery.

Through May 27 2018

"AFAM’s exhibition offers a rare opportunity to view, up close, some of the art brut and outsider art genres’ holiest grails, including works by the Swiss artists Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930) and Aloïse Corbaz (1886–1964), the American Henry Darger (1892-1973), and Charles A. A. Dellschau (1830-1923)." Edward M. Gómez

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS

Darcilio Lima (1944 - 1991) will be at the The Met Breuer NYC courtesy of Stephen Romano Gallery in the exhibition "Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980" September 13, 2017–January 14, 2018 Delirious times demand delirious art, or so this exhibition will propose.

DARCILIO LIMA AT REINA SOPHIA MUSEUM, MADRID.

The Art of Darcilio Lima (1944 - 1991) at the Reina Sophia Museum, Madrid for the exhibition "Mário Pedrosa: On the Affective Nature of Form" Curated by Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro. All works are courtesy Stephen Romano Gallery

WILLIAM MORTENSEN AT MUSEUM OF OLD AND NEW

William Mortensen was EXHIBITED AT The Museum of old and new, tasmania, COURTESY OF The Museum of Everything

William Mortensen's "A pictorial Compendium of Witchcraft" at MOAN, Tasmania.